![]() I here examine Indiana’s use of incomodando as an affective strategy that guides her artistic production as a Dominican-born queer artist. Indiana’s view of the future is at once utopian and a little uncomfortable. ![]() In her music-which we might characterize as speculative merengue or speculative electro-rock, in that it combines futuristic themes with electronic sounds-as well as in her novels, Indiana manages to posit a theoretical future that, to use her wording, incomoda. 1 Indiana’s pronouncement points toward one of the ways she uses speculative genres. Of her decision to return to music to produce this stinging critique of Dominican politicians, Indiana has said: “Regreso, como dijo un trovador, para incomodar al que vive en el confort y para reconfortar al que vive en la incomodidad”. In the eerie video, which is characterized by swinging doll heads and an unnerving séance scene, Indiana sings of corruption in the Dominican Republic. ![]() ![]() ![]() To read the editor’s introduction to the series, click here.Īfter taking a break from music for almost a decade, Dominican novelist and performance artist Rita Indiana returned in 2017 with a single and video for “El Castigador”. The following is part of a cluster on the Futurities of Latinx Speculative Fictions. ![]()
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